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PENELOPE CRUZ may look calm and collected in Ralph Lauren 's recent ad campaigns, but her first experience of modelling on the catwalk nearly made her lose her cool. "It was terrible," the Captain Corelli's Mandolin star tells today's Daily Telegraph . "I was really nervous. The runway seemed to go on forever. It's such a difficult profession." But in spite of her nerves, Penelope, who confirms that she has moved in to a Los Angeles house owned by new beau Tom Cruise this week, was more than happy to work with one of America's premier style makers. "Ralph saw some of my movies and then called me for a meeting," she goes on. "He offered me the campaign, and I was very happy. I've followed his work since I was little. I love his taste. It's sexy and classy at the same time." And the feeling, it seems, is mutual. "Before we even met I saw this inner sparkle," says Lauren of his Spanish-born model. "She's a unique combination of beauty and intelligence."